• What is zenoLINK?
• What is the Kinetic Link?
• What does zenoLINK tell me?
• How does zenoLINK work?

What is zenoLINK?

zenoLINK is a diagnostic tool designed to provide information about functional performance during a specific activity. Data produced by zenoLINK testing quantifies both performance and injury potential through biomechanical measurements that include joint ROM, body segment coordination and outcome parameters.

What is the Kinetic Link?

The kinetic link graphs show the angular or rotational speed of several different body segments and the club shaft. They are color coded for ease of interpretation. The hips segment is red, the shoulders segment is blue, the arms segment is green and the club shaft is black.

Body segments: hips, shoulders and arms are calculated as the speed at which they rotate around the axis of the spine. The club shaft is calculated as the speed at which it rotates around an axis drawn through the wrists and perpendicular the plane of the arms.

The kinetic link graph represents the body's ability to create and conserve momentum whereby summating speed from segment to segment such that the speed at the end of the chain or system is moving at a much larger speed than the first segment.

A normal effective pattern would be one in which the hips segment accelerates first. The hips segment would accelerate to a peak speed at which time it would be rapidly decelerated from within the system. The shoulders segment would accelerate through the point of hips segment peak speed. Through conservation of momentum and the summation of speed the shoulders segment would reach a higher peak speed than that of the hips segment at which time it too would be decelerated. The arms segment would accelerate through the point of peak shoulders. The arms segment would reach a peak speed and decelerate at which time the club would be released and accelerate away from the arms into impact with the ball. [ top ]

What does zenoLINK tell me?

zenoLINK measures an individual's biomechanics during a given activity. Biomechanical parameters include joint range of motion, body segment speed and core posture. However, zenoLINK goes beyond just making static measurements to mapping complex movement patterns. Using patented and proprietary data visualization techniques, dynamic coordination can be objectively quantified and evaluated - functional performance assessed.

Physical attributes (ie, strength, flexibility, speed) can be directly related to faulty movement patterns. Faulty movement patterns can be correlated with break downs in performance.

In addition to mapping movement patterns, zenoLINK provides numerical assessment of parameters. This information is essential in both making a diagnosis and monitoring the effectiveness of a treatment/training program. Normals (both pattern and numeric) are provided for guidance in assessing data from Welch-e technologies' database of research.

With zenoLINK data, it is possible to pin-point weakness or "break down" in movement patterns specific to a given activity. Even more importantly it is possible to link physical attributes (ie. strength, ROM, stability) to weakness in functional movement patterns and outcome parameters. This affords a clinician the ability to create treatment / training programs that have a definite impact on performance for a given activity. [ top ]

How does zenoLINK work?

zenoLINK is a three-dimensional (3-D) motion analysis product. Using mathematics, zenoLINK creates a 3-D representation or model of an individual performing a given activity or motion. Using that 3-D information, zenolink is able to make calculations and quantify biomechanical performance.

zenoLINK uses standard video as a collection medium and a manual digitization process to create 3-D motion data. Utilizing standard video and manual digitizing results in maximum collection/processing flexibility and responsiveness with minimum cost expenditure. [ top ]

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